The New Testament background : selected documents / by C.K. Barrett.

The Roman empire. Augustus and the imperial settlement ; Tiberius ; Gaius (Caligula) ; Claudius ; Nero ; Vespasian ; Domitian.

The papyri. Preparation and use of papyrus ; Form and style of letter-writing in the papyri ; Magical and religious papyri ; Papyri illustrating social and economic conditions.

Inscriptions. The Gallio inscription at Delphi ; Synagogue inscriptions ; Sacral manumission.

The philosophers. Heraclitus and the logos ; Plato: the philosopher's mission and the doctrine of ideas ; The earlier Stoics ; Stoic ethics ; Epicurus ; The philosophic missionary. --
The hermetic literature.

Mystery religions. The myth ; Initiation ; Worship. Jewish history. The Maccabean period ; The high priests ; Herod the Great ; The procurators ; Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes ; The Jewish War of A.D. 66-70 ; The revolt of A.D. 132-5 ; The dispersion.

Rabbinic literature and Rabbinic Judaism. The rabbis ; The literature ; The law ; Feasts and festivals ; The synagogue ; Haber and 'Am ha-'aretz' ; Proselytes ; Heretics ; Theology ; Judicial procedure.

Philo. Philo's faithfulness to the law ; His philosophical eclecticism ; The allegorical method ; Etymological arguments ; Philo's doctrine of the logos and other intermediate beings ; Philo's own religion and ethics.

Josephus. Biographical materials ; Josephus on John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, and James ; Josephus at Apologist ; The Slavonic Josephus.

The Septuagint. The traditional origin of the Septuagint ; Selections from the Septuagint. --
Apocalyptic. The literary forms of Apocalyptic ; The essential notions of Apocalyptic.